Lamentations 3:8
Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
In Context
7He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
9He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
Cross References
Job 30:20I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.
Psalms 80:4Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.
Lamentations 3:44Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.
Matthew 27:46and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →